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T-Mobile USA to soon sell iPhones, cut subsidies: CEO — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG (DTEGn.DE) unit T-Mobile USA will start selling the Apple Inc (AAPL.O) iPhone in about three to four months and will enforce its plan to get rid of cellphone subsidies in a similar timeframe, according to Chief Executive John Legere.

Apple Working On a Less-Expensive iPhone — Apple Inc. is working on a lower-end iPhone, according to people briefed on the matter, a big shift in strategy as its supremacy in smartphones has slipped. — While Apple has explored such a device for years, the plan has been progressing …

Google Withdraws Patent Claims Against Microsoft — Google today filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate its attempt to stop Microsoft from using video-compression technology on the Xbox. — Microsoft wants to license two standards-essential patents for H.264 that Google controls …

It's official: 3D is dead — The tech industry's annual hot air balloon show is dead, and the world's better for it — There's something about 2013's Consumer Electronics Show that's different from every other iteration this decade. You might not realize it immediately …

Improving Twitter search with real-time human computation — One of the magical things about Twitter is that it opens a window to the world in real-time. An event happens, and seconds later, people share it across the planet. — Consider, for example, what happened when Flight 1549 crashed in the Hudson River:

Samsung's big push for 2013: content, corporates — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the global leader in consumer smartphones, is planning two major thrusts in 2013: bulking up mobile content and moving faster into the corporate market dominated by Research in Motion.

Jersey retailer Play.com closes direct retail business — Play.com is pulling out of Jersey and moving the remaining 200 staff to Cambridge — Online retailer Play.com is to shut down its retail business to become a marketplace-only, from March. — The Jersey-based firm blamed the move …

Broadcom chip ushers in H.265 and UltraHD video — The H.265 video standard, aka HEVC or MPEG-5, squeezes more pixels over a network connection to support new high-resolution 4K TVs. Broadcom's chip supports both and is due to arrive in volume next year. — As product names go, BCM7445 is as boring as it gets.

Baseball Dumping Dugout-to-Bullpen Landlines — The reserve clause is dead. And so are wool uniforms. There are no longer eight teams in each league. And the Houston Astros have departed the National League. — Major League Baseball is now about to disconnect the landlines that link dugouts to bullpens.

Could Verizon, AT&T Follow T-Mobile in Ending Subsidies? — The biggest U.S. wireless carriers are watching T-Mobile USA's experiment with ending smartphone subsidies, but they aren't sure if subscribers are ready to make the change. — Major wireless carriers tend to subsidize the cost …